Should NYC Car Sharing Cars Share On-Street Parking Spaces?

NYC car sharing cars are allocated priceless on-street parking spaces

The NYC driving public is fit-to-be-tied, even though just 285 spaces are now ear-marked for NYC car sharing cars. Fair or Foul?

Let’s ask Elisa Ferreira, who was pushing her son, Mason, in a stroller through Hamilton Heights on a recent weekday, and complained that the 20 spots the city plans to remove from her neighborhood will just make the ordeal even worse.

NYC car sharing pilot program

What’s the story, DOT?

In line with recent City Council legislation, the NYC Department of Transportation is running a two-year citywide pilot to designate 285 parking spaces in municipal parking facilities and on-street in select neighborhoods for the use of car sharing companies.

Improve local air quality and reduce congestion – New Yorkers who use carshare drive less than those who own their own car. Less driving means cleaner air and fewer cars on city streets.

Shorten your search for parking by ensuring that car-sharers always have a reserved space. Better yet, adding carshare spaces reduces personal car ownership, which benefits all drivers in the neighborhood by lowering the number of cars competing for the curb.

Lower household transportation costs by providing reliable access to a car without annual car insurance and maintenance bills, tickets, and unexpected costs. You only pay for as much or as little as you drive.

Improve access to services, friends/family, and recreation by making a car available when you need one.

This pilot aims to put car share within convenient reach of more New Yorkers to increase the mobility and financial benefits of the service for residents and the city as a whole.

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I got a sidewalk ticket for parking in front of my garage. My garage is on the odd side of the street, and across the street, on the even side, is a school building with the address on it as “4500 “. The officer wrote on my ticket by the empty space for “place of occurrence” he wrote “Opposite 4509 9th ave.
This address of 4509 9th ave. Brooklyn NY, does not exist, not on the even side and not on the odd side.
Is there any way I can fight this ticket?